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How to recycle your unwanted tech items

How to recycle your unwanted tech items

You can probably name a long list of items that can be recycled – milk bottles, tin cans, glass jars, cardboard…. but would you think to add your mobile phone to that list? What about other tech items?  Not only can mobile phones be recycled, it is very important...
Three ways to love our water this summer

Three ways to love our water this summer

With 15,000km of coastlines and 452,000km of rivers and streams, you’re never far from the water in New Zealand. Whether its at the beach, river or lake, most Kiwis spend their summer holiday in, on or near some of our great coastlines or waterways. Protecting New...
Why a mobile phone can be a gift that keeps on giving

Why a mobile phone can be a gift that keeps on giving

Most people would be stoked to find a brand-new mobile phone sitting under the tree for them this Christmas. If you are giving someone a mobile phone as a Christmas present this year, encourage them to recycle their current one with RE:MOBILE. By doing so, a mobile...
Urban Mining: Extracting the gold from your unwanted mobile phone

Urban Mining: Extracting the gold from your unwanted mobile phone

We all know that gold is precious – it makes expensive jewellery and valuable medals – but did you know that gold is a vital component of your mobile phone? Gold is used in the circuit boards of mobile phones and other electronic devices because it is chemically...
RE:MOBILE raises $25,000 for Sustainable Coastlines

RE:MOBILE raises $25,000 for Sustainable Coastlines

New Zealand’s waterways will benefit from the thousands of Kiwis who have recycled their mobile phones in the past year. RE:MOBILE, a not-for-profit mobile phone recycling scheme which is managed by the TCF, has raised over $25,000 for charity partner, Sustainable...